You will be singing a different tune Len if someone from your ISP has a site that hires a spam company and you are on the receiving end of this misdirected attack.
No, I won't. I will be disconnecting the someone as having violated their ToS.
Or say someone gets mad at you and hires someone to send a spam about your website and it gets attacked by the Lycos bots.
As Rummy so blithely pines, "stuff happens". So this possible but probably tiny risk of abuse of defensive DDoS counter-attacks, as you "anti-DDoS liberals" see it, far outweighs the benefits?
Think about this a little harder sir :) Everything that appears to be sugar is not always sweet!
Getting listed for attack by Lycos-type DDoS is no different from getting listed in RBL, which has been going for years. In the vast majority of cases, RBLs have been extremely positive contribution that have been, considering the nature of the operation, extremely accurate and effective tools. The Lycos-type tactic is exactly the same, but it is active, rather than RBL-passive. But RBLs haven't stopped spam, while DDoS counter-attacks would destroy the spamvertizers' websites and prevent them from making any money from spam.
So, Ted, having "thought harder", you don't want Lycos or anybody else to counter-attack with DDoS against spamvertiser sites? You "thoughtful" position is that the status quo where spamvertizers can hire untouchable criminals and their wide-open ,compromised networks of machines to bomb our MXs with increasing intensity is ok while spamvertizers make millions with websites in plain view at our expense?
Len
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